ism_:
he would do so, I know, at once, if he thought that anybody would benefit
by them; and I can bear witness to Part I. as having been already of some
use. It is high time that Christians should be decided as to whether or no
they may meddle with the fearful power whose existence is is impossible to
ridicule any longer. DR. MAITLAND has suggested the true course of thought
upon the subject, and promised to lead us along it; but it is impossible at
present to use anything that he has said, on account of its incompleteness.
In tracing the subject through history, DR. MAITLAND would no doubt mention
the "[Greek: Omphalopsuchoi], or Umbilicani," of the fourteenth century,
whose practices make a page (609.) of Waddington's _History of the Church_
read like a sketch of Middle-age Mesmerism, contemptuously given. Also, in
Washington Irving's _Life of Mahomet_, a belief somewhat similar to theirs
is stated to have been preached in the seventh century (_Bohn's Reprint in
Shilling Series_, p. 191.) by a certain Moseilma, a false prophet.

I may add that Miss Martineau's new book, _Letters of the Development of
Man's Nature, by Atkinson and Martineau_, which cannot be called sceptical,
for its unbelief is unhesitating, is the immediate cause of my writing
to-day.

A. L. R.

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Minor Notes.

_Original Warrant._--The following warrant from the original in the
Surrenden collection may interest some of your correspondents, as bearing
upon more than one Query that has appeared in your columns:--

"Forasmuch as S^r John Payton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, hath
heretofore receaved a warrant from the Lls. of the counsell, by her
Ma^{ts} commandment, for the removinge of Wright the Preist out of the
Tower, to Framingham Castle, and for that, since then, it is thought
more convenient, that he be removed to the Clincke--Theise therefore
shalbe to require now (sic) to enlarge him of his imprisonment in the
Tower, and to deliver him prisoner into the hands of the L. Bishop of
London, to be committed by his Lp. to the Clincke, because it is for
her M^{ts} speciall service,--for doinge whereof, this shalbe your
warrant.

"From the court at
"Oatlands this 29
"of September, 1602.
"RO. CECYLL.

"To Mr. Anthony Deeringe,
"Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London."

"2. October, 1602.